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*** Goldring, Schmid, & Apaydin
*** Blame Shifting in Autocracies
*** Perspectives on Politics
*** Read Me
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*** Software
StataMP 18 used to conduct the analyses for this article.



*** File Inventory
* "EAD 3.0 Annual_11282023.dta" - Executive Approval Dataset; used only for Figure 2
* "GSA_PoP_ReplicationCode.do" - Stata do file to construct the article's tables and figures:
- Figure 2
- Table 1
- Figure 3
- Figure 4
- Figure 5
- Table 2
- Table F1
- Table H1
- Table I1
- Table I2
- Table I3
- Table I4
- Table I5
- Table I6
- Table I7 
* "GSA_PoP_TablesFigures.dta" - main dataset for all of the articles tables and figures, unless explicitly stated elsewhere in this file
* "GSA_PoP_Weights.csv" - CSV containing post-stratification weights to estimate Table I3
* "GSA_PoP_Log.smcl" - Stata log file


*** Replication Code
"GSA_PoP_ReplicationCode.do" contains the code needed to replicate all the tables and figures in the article and appendix.

Change the working directory path in line 20 of the code to the folder in which you have saved the replication files.


